CNN interviewed Dr. Chiyome Fukino, a former director of the Hawaii Department of Health and a Republican, who says she reviewed Obama’s original birth certificate and has “no doubt” he was born in that state.

Here’s more from the report:

Obama’s 2008 campaign produced a certification of live birth, a document legally accepted as confirmation of a birth and routinely used for official purposes. Fukino went one step further, taking advantage of a state law that allows certain public officials to examine a person’s actual birth certificate if there is a “direct and tangible interest.”

The president’s certificate, she said, is stored in a vault in the building that houses the Department of Health. Ironically, unlike the certificate of live birth, it is no longer accepted for official usage.

Obama’s certificate is “absolutely authentic,” she said. “He was absolutely born here in the state of Hawaii.”

As CNN reports, when Hawaiian citizens request a copy of their birth certificate, they receive a computer-generated copy with a state seal, like the one presented by Obama’s presidential campaign. Obama could make a public records request for the original document and make copies but so far hasn’t. But would that put an end to the debate?

CNN also looks at Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

“It’s not possible,” Nakaso said. “Under the system that existed back then, there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. … The information came directly from the state Department of Health.”

Indeed, as CNN confirmed, all birth announcements at the time came directly from hospital birth records.